Word events
Subtitle: perspectives on verbal notation
By: John Lely and James Saunders
Contributors: Saunders, James, 1972 December 12-
Publisher: Continuum
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 456
ISBN-13: 9781441173102
Subjects: Avant-garde (Music); Musical notation; History
Description: "Verbal notation has emerged since the 1950s as a prominent medium in the field of experimental music, as well as in related areas of arts practice involving performance and object making ... This book examines the use of English grammar in verbal notation, with numerous examples of usage from specific verbal scores. Commentaries explore the compositional strategies and performance practice of particular works, and this discussion is contextualized in key essays ... together with many statements and interviews from composers, artists and performers"--Cover, p. [4].
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [440]-447) and index.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. Grammar. On the use of grammar in verbal notation. Introduction ; Grammars ; Context ; Register ; Processes ; Tense ; Modality ; Mood ; Voice ; Circumstances ; Postscript; title: pt. 2. Scores, writings and commentaries. Eric Andersen : Opus 18 (1961) ; In mezzo a quattro tempi; title: Robert Ashley : The entrance (1965-6); title: G. Douglas Barrett : A few silence (location, date, time of performance) (2008); title: Antoine Beuger : One tone, rather short, very quiet (1998); title: George Brecht : Time-table music (1959) ; Time-table event (1961); title: Gavin Bryars : Far away and dimly pealing (1970); title: Arthur Bull : from 25 scores (1994); title: John Cage : Solo for voice 6 (1970); title: Cornelius Cardew : The great learning, paragraph 6 (1968-71); title: Tony Conrad : selected pieces from 1961 compositions; title: Philip Corner : Gamelaoony (2004); title: Bill Drummond : Show (2007); title: Ken Friedman : Zen vaudeville (1966); title: Malcolm Goldstein : Wood stone metal skin, with voice (1983); title: Daniel Goode : Relaxing at the piano (1977); title: Lawrence Halprin : 'A summary of the characteristics of scores,' from The RSVP cycles : creative processes in the human environment; title: Tom Johnson : The big rumble and the tiny blip, from Private pieces (1976); title: Seth Kim-Cohen : Forever got shorter (from a t-shirt of the same name) (2010); title: Bengt af Klintberg : from Twenty-five orange events (1963-6); title: Alison Knowles : Shoes of your choice (1963); title: Takehisa Kosugi : South no. 3 (Malika) (1965); title: Joseph Kudirka : Superstition's willing victim (2007); title: Sol LeWitt : Wall drawing #960 (2001); title: Annea Lockwood : From the river archive (1973); title: Alvin Lucier : Music on a long thin wire (1977); title: George Maciunas : In memoriam to Adriano Olivetti (1962); title: Benedict Mason : Telling, from Outside sight unseen and opened (1999); title: Kenneth Maue : from 'Ideas around the experiences,' in Water in the lake : real events for the imagination; title: Max Neuhaus : Listen (1966); title: Pauline Oliveros : Ear piece (1998); title: Yoko Ono : Record of 13 concert piece performances (2010); title: Michael Parsons : Walk (1969); title: Ben Patterson : Solo for dancer (1962); title: Michael Pisaro : Only (2005-6); title: Erik Satie : Performance indications; title: Craig Shepard : Lines (1) ; Lines (2) (1999); title: Kunsu Shim : Places with airhorn (1999); title: Mieko (Chieko) Shiomi : Event scores (1963-4); title: Hugh Shrapnel : Houdini rite (1970); title: Howard Skempton : For strings (1969); title: Mark So : Some forgotten day (Sparse winter) (2009); title: Karlheinz Stockhausen : Right durations (1968); title: Jennifer Walshe : Dirty white fields (2002); title: Manfred Werder : 2005¹; title: John White : Newspaper-reading machine (c. 1971); title: Michael Winter : For Sol LeWitt (2009); title: Daniel James Wolf : The long march (2009); title: Christian Wolff : Stones (1968); title: Amnon Wolman : February 26, 2000; title: La Monte Young : 1960 works.